The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-11-24
HOW THEY TRADE HORSES.
SOME THE TRICKS WITNESSED
AT CEDAR HILL.
Franklin County and Her PeOple-.The
county Does Not Flow With Milk and
Honey. But it i a Goodly Heritage.
I Editorial Correspondence.

LoUISBURG, y G., Nov Is, 1SS7.-Some- |
thing over a year a2o a leading citizen of
Franklin county invited me to come to the
invitation upon me He said that if ex-
pected to make a successful STATE paper |
could not hope to do SO without visiting
LouiSburg and meeting the people of
Franklin county.
His invitation accompanied by his jocu
lar expression that it would do me good
TO visit Franklin, was called to my mind
a few weeks ago when President Cleveland
visited Chicago. In the Presidents speech
he said that, when he was inaugurated, an
old gentleman from Chicago visited him
and told him that there were thousands of
people who didn't believe man could
make a good President who had never seen
Chicago He urged the President to drop
all his work and learn how to be a wise
Chief Executive by visiting the great Wes-
tern porkopois. After relating this, the
President told the Chicagoians that when
ever he had made mistakes he had recalled
the words of the old gentleman, and re-
fiected that if he had taken his advice and
gone TO Chicago he would have avoided
all his errors and made model President.
An humble and enthusiastic follower of
this nineteeth century Gamaliel, | thought
ii Well to follow the example of the great
est President of the last half century, and
90 where could learn how to avoid mis-
takes How to avoid mistakes. That
means TO learn everything, for mistakes
come from lack of wisdom. If there be
Fount of Wisdom, and it be situate so
near Raleigh as Franklin county, it were
blindness not to visit 1t.
I came-I saw-1 learned much, if
have not learned how to avoid all mistakes.
Certainly if my visit brings me no more
profit than the pleasure of meeting and
miugIing with the people of Franklin (none
better are to be found in the State), /
shall ALWAYS remember it as one of lasting
good Here in Louisburg | find the old
time hospitality of which we hear 50 much.
Ii is not what it was in the olden times
when the inhabitants We're wealthy and
had naught of care, but it is generous and
is dispensed with the oldtime love Of en-
tertaining "Given to hospitality Is, /
believe, one of the graces named IN the
Bible. In this biblical grace Louisburg is
not wanting.
The older people in the State remember
Louisburg as centre Of culture and re
inement. It was always famous tor good
schools. For half century most of the
women of large section of Eastern North
Carolina were educated here. 1t contlnu-
ed an educational Mecca until the report
became current that it was not a healthy
place, and then its schools langulshed.
They are good now, but have only local
patronage Judge Davis once told me that
there was no healthier place in Eastern
North Carolina than LOulsburg. he says
there are more very old people in Louis
burg, according to population, than III
any other place of which he has knowl-
edge. Tney live contentedly here, and live
to a ripe old age.
If there is less Of the old time way OF
living here, there is more business. The
merchants tell me that the business OF the
place gets better every year. This year
Franklin had splendid crops and that
means that business is good. Fine crops
make business profitable. The town-folk
are prospering- not getting rich. There
Is nothing like boom here, but the busl-
ness is on a solid and substantial basis.
The farmers are in a better humOr than
usual because Of good crops. | was I'M
g. n bn 10 JT n
attend court are not restless and dlscon-
tented. They desire to do better, but they
are not fretting and complaining The
world has no room for complainers and
GROWERS. | saw none in Franklin, and
that is as good a thing as can be sad OF
the people.
Nobody talks politics. Judge Davis
Capt Cooke, and Col. Green are the chle1
idols of the people, and there is no Jeal
ousy among their friends. The people
want to see Capt. Cooke in Congress, anc
they say he would make good Governor
That he would. Capt Cooke would make
a good and able official in any position
The Younger members of the bar are dong
we'll. The cordial relations existing be
tween the lawyers is sight that Is gooe
to see. Nowhere have | found a bette
spirit. or kinder relations among lawyers
But THE chief and novel thing to see a
Louisburg on Tuesday Of court week Is Ia
horse trading on Cedar Hill. 1t has beel
a noted place for horse swapping tor gen
erations past, and has given to Loulsburi
a fame not bounded by State lines. Her
everybody comes who desires to trac
horses and there can be seen more sorr
horses here in one day than anywhere els
in a month Boot is rarely gwen, pu
sometimes Everybody who carries
horse to Cedar Hill is bent on trading
| saw some rare sights here. Sometime
NAV describe the trades and the method
and tricks. for the readers OF the CHRON
Gle. To-day l will give only a few INC
dents that serve to show something OF TN
''tricks of the trade"
There once lived on Sandy Creek a note
character, by name Jack Gupton, who fl&
ured on Cedar Hill for many years. d
cups and downs in his trades and nume1
ous escanades would fill a book. On on